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ld be able to fit it into a dantean structure and felt that he had failed to do this for me pound s failure is the important lesson i am hoping to follow pound s model where the cantos were published originally in small groups a draft of xxx cantos followed by eleven new cantos and so on but there is no over arching structure improvisation is an important principle throughout as for the reader i was working so much with my own free associations to the contemporary materials that i am hoping readers will be sparked by the fragments and references to make their own associations with that period bg thank you 1 robert hampson covodes 1 19 artery editions 2022 the accompanying cd a reading od f the complete set of poems is accompanied on cello by joanna levi share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email tweet more print opens in new window print share on tumblr share on reddit opens in new window reddit like this like loading 2 comments posted in conversation english poetry interviews and tagged belinda giannessi charles olson daniel defoe david bowie ezra pound robert hampson t s eliot bookmark the permalink that which i touch has no name by jennifer k dick black spring press group posted on july 26 2022 by tearsinthefence the dialogic process of jennifer dick s poems occurs in a multilingual context in which english french and italian interweave the demolition of meaning and of naming provides space for a provisional reconstruction of language that evolves in sounds alliteration and chains of words they evoke each other in a multifaceted polyphonic rhythm that envisages infinite possibilities a saussurian signifier and signified are proposed in a different perspective in which derrida s concept of the loss of the centre seems to be more relevant traditional forms are reviewed and opposed giving way to multiple voices and different perceptions these diverse interpretations are off the centre as derrida claims as there is no centre or any transcendental or universal entity to which we can refer or appeal this concept of displacement opens the individual up to the construction of alternative views dick s poetry is a poetical journey that delves into philosophical and linguistic topics without an apparent logic and with no definite ending or goals it is a wandering around sometimes in circles and at other times in a winding path that emphasises the process rather than the conclusion fragments and echoes of everyday life and today s society such as political issues shootings women s rights scientific knowledge and the environment are embedded in her discourse in this way she explores language and therefore identity in a complex and comprehensive view of being human though we are strangers to ourselves we take another self into ourselves in an exchange that is promiscuous and generates intertextual connections references to sappho erin mouré s a frame of the book and the myth of dibutades the inventor of the art of modelling clay in pliny the elder s historia naturalis trace constant intertextual routes throughout the collection and give direction to the narratives it is a conversation that marks displacement and loss but also a constant attempt at replacement her herding herself forward and again to go forth into this bright afternoon unaccompanied by the whorls of the whims of another s loss this body unlatched absence in the reassertion of self space shame in a presence of griefs the body as message quotations from mouré are signalled in grey notes as titles interweaved into the poems they flag up the inconsistency of our reasoning when we try to make sense of ourselves through language words can deceive and the only strategy for finding a way through the labyrinth is to create alternative connections collect stones shells ants the carcasses of bees derelict homing predilections combing the convex codex for a hived intermezzo in stance stead of intermission stand and re geolocate the space distance place figurative blight the myth of butades daughter dibutades in french is thoroughly explored in the central section afterlife it is the legend of the origin of drawing and painting in which the protagonist outlines her lover s shadow which is cast on a wall he will leave soon so she wishes to keep the memory of him in the drawing however butades daughter possesses no independent name she is not in the story she is not she is therefore erased from history an illusion a recollection of a line traced onto the wall sections in french alternate with those in english in a partial translation that is also a reworking of the story the process of redefinition culminates in the final poems in an assay that is an attempt to create through memory the poems are inkling of emerging vocabularies linguistic minefields of the forgotten written over re emergent assay space and body time language are in constant movement and transformation projecting the outline of their shadows onto our uncertain existence the collection examines the complexity of these fundamental concepts with precision and depth carla scarano d antonio 26 th july 2022 share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email tweet more print opens in new window print share on tumblr share on reddit opens in new window reddit like this like loading 1 comment posted in american poetry books english poetry french poetry italian poetry multilingual poetry and tagged erin mouré ferdinand saussure jacques derrida jennifer k dick pliny the elder sappho bookmark the permalink there are angels walking the fields by marlon hacla translated by kristine ong muslim broken sleep books posted on july 23 2022 by tearsinthefence let s get the negative out of the way first tilde acuña s calligraphic and hand drawn introduction is physically unreadable here despite looking wonderful it s a shame because broken sleep books have got better and better designed since the press started because i m sure she had something useful to say and because this is a marvellous book kristine ong muslim s useful translator s note explains that this collection was originally published in the philippines in 2010 and frames the book as a gathering of ekphrastic poems which manifest real or imagined artworks through various poetic devices it s not the kind of ekphrasis that the reader or english readers will recognise as few sources or artists are mentioned instead we get intense and often disturbing snapshots along with captured moments most often set in stark desolate or abandoned settings and populated by nameless characters and personified objects the language is often voluptuous the images engrossing even when describing violence diorama 26 tells us the fingers were like dragonflies as they strangled her whilst serial killer enters the mind of the subject now about that man on the first page of the newspaper this morning the one whose mouth has been slashed don t worry i let him scream just a little always knives are reasonable priced in the public market the titular angels appear in the final line of diorama 54 they are the memories or ghosts of those already dead at the scene the poem is about a grenade which was useless at this point because there was no one else left to kill hacla s landscapes are often populated by the unexpected cicadas which sound as if they are trying to tell him something the trysting place a child s invisible friend the playground or a being that was not yet an infant some forsaken things time and action are frozen here where everything begins with a long wait behind the window 5 26 p m a long wait that is shared by many others behind their own windows all aware that everything ends with a long wait behind the window even the white stones have been crushed into teardrop shaped pieces still life moments after the blast and suppressed moans can still be heard next door the starry night vincent van gogh only by remembering can the world be understood and there be the possibility to forget caught in this contradictory tension the poet and reader are like the characters in the brief poem the room reproduced here in its entirety he led me inside the room where she kept his past each day is like a corpse like sapphires devoid of luster their open eyes all night we stroked and closed every eyelid by recognising and confronting the war torn abusive and violent world hacla animates and subverts the darkness offering us an awkward exit point in the exchange the final poem here tell me everything you want to say before the light silences us this is powerful moving and lyrical poetry and i hope to be able to read more of marlon hacla s astonishing writing in due course rupert loydell 23 rd july 2022 share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email tweet more print opens in new window print share on tumblr share on reddit opens in new window reddit like this like loading 1 comment posted in american poetry books and tagged broken sleep books kristine ong muslim marlon hacla tilde acuña vincent van gogh bookmark the permalink emptying houses by gerald killingworth dempsey windle posted on july 20 2022 by tearsinthefence if you relish words their sounds and subtleties of meaning then this is the book for you i say relish deliberately because gerald killingworth s masterly skill turns words into something one can almost taste and savour for a long time afterwards water words illustrates this perfectly syllables become fragments of ocean and their length corresponds to the different sounds and sizes of liquid the monosyllables drip and splash represent the moment of the ocean s birth but soon both syllables and water grow into puddle and rivulet then into cataracts and finally with a thrashing surge into the magnificent four syllabled inundations tongues is another example of the pleasure that words bring the joy to be found in the arcane quaintness of ariff crizzle fizgigging slaughter and budge but this poem is about more than the fun of playing with parts of speech it s about erosion loss and the incomprehension that occurs when history shifts its axis and once rich languages are fractured becoming irrelevant a footnote at best concern with this erosion of language is an important motif in emptying houses and one that particularly appeals to me but the main feature of this collection the quality that makes this book so extraordinary and unique is the way gerald killingworth handles humour very very dark humour anyone who has heard him read a tale of a turd will know instantly what i mean no details of the dead viking s excrement are spared rather they are elaborated on the owner of the turd now a famous exhibit in york s museum is given the name snorri his eating habits are analysed by scientists who sniff this marvel weigh it and pick it apart concluding that snorri lived on meat a human touch is added as the reader imagines this character vowing to eat more greens with his bacon so there is a lot of humour laugh out loud humour in the first part at least of this poem but then we have the extra brilliant touch that gerald killingworth brings to all his poems the poignancy that overrides despair the sadness and regret that is always just below the surface snorri s turd is what remains of him the one thing he is remembered for that is his reputation though hardly a blueprint for the whole man another poem that illustrates this blend of horror and pathos is rigid with indignation where the skull of asra a former temple dancer is being analysed the poet wonders if the process might reveal her thoughts and unconfessed ambition but any splendours sadly do not show up in this vacuity which is dull as an empty ice cream scoop there are also vacant spaces in the title poem emptying houses which is about the sadness of clearing a house after the death of the occupant whose history is over even more poignant and tender is j i working through the house we found roll upon roll of it christmas wrapping paper as if present giving were assured for decades to come impossible to read these lines and not share the grief at the waste and finality of it all emptying houses is a unique poetry collection and gerald killingworth is an original and special writer i appreciate all the poems but would find it hard to choose just one as my favourite maybe it would be pebbles where the stones make a plea for wetness to be on a tide line not inland and faded dusty dim or there is the beautiful in praise of chlorophyll where everything on the earth has been destroyed except for the soft green throw of grass but if i could only choose one piece i think it would be habits which seems to echo the mood of the john clare epigraph at the beginning of the book it s short and simple and perfect take the long way round sometimes b doesn t always have to follow a scuff leaves kick stones drift jump into puddles more remember they hold the sky peep around corners gaze unfocused dream mandy pannett 20 th july 2022 share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email tweet more print opens in new window print share on tumblr share on reddit opens in new window reddit like this like loading 1 comment posted in books english poetry and tagged crizzle emptying houses gerald killingworth john clare snorri bookmark the permalink at raucous purposeful by j h prynne broken sleep books posted on july 19 2022 by tearsinthefence well into his eighties now jh prynne is enjoying the most prolific period of his career and indeed one that exceeds the output of every other poet i can think of since 2020 he has published some 25 new works mostly chapbooks with small independent publishers this puts into shade other notable late flowerings like those of geoffrey hill jorie graham and john ashbery although presumably it could be argued that because prynne s publications are all short form sequences at raucous purposeful for example amounts to only 15 pages of text in terms of actual word count they might tally with the prolix ruminations of say the daybooks and the book of baruch by the gnostic justin i ve always thought that late prynne and late hill have a good deal in common sharing the hermetic fulminating tone of a slightly unhinged don over erudite and over immersed in the historical etymologies of their beloved oed bent on an increasingly private vision that seems to distantly footnote their earlier momentous breakthroughs who on earth could keep up with prynne at this rate of production perhaps that s the point as time runs out is he trying to outrun any attempt to coddle him into sedate poetic dotage like an augustus carmichael sent to doze over his notebook on the lawn on the one hand this scattershot approach feels like the great confounder sticking to his guns keeping faith with the small presses and sequences of cryptic linguistic détournement which have formed the bedrock of his practice since the 1960s not for him the facile conveniences of airing new work on the internet or 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